[269] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 01.04.2026 Gram Panchayat of Village Gehri Devi Nagar Alias Gheri Bhagi, Tehsil and District Bathinda through its Sarpanch Gurbachan Singh …Appellant versus JagmannInderjit Singh and others ….Respondents Coram : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PANKAJ JAIN Present: Mr. Onkar Rai, Advocate for the appellant.

None for respondent No.1.

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PANKAJ JAIN, J. (ORAL)

[1] Gram Panchayat is in appeal.

[2] For convenience, parties hereinafter are referred to by their original position(s) as in civil suit, i.e. appellant as defendant No.1 and plaintiff as respondent No.1.

[3] Plaintiff filed a suit asserting his possession as a tenant at Will over the suit land owned by Jumla Mushtarka Malkan. The suit was dismissed by the court of first instance.

[4] Unsuccessful plaintiff preferred appeal. The same has been allowed vide impugned judgment and decree. Appellant-Panchayat has been restrained from dispossessing plaintiff from the suit land except in due course of law.

[5] Counsel for the appellant during the course of argument brings to the notice of this Court that the Panchayat initiated proceedings under Section 7 of the Panchayat Vil